Gonna be a bit of a dork about my newsletter for a moment, apologies in advance. BIG EGG currently has 72 paying subscribers. I would love to make it 100. There's a sale today where a one year subscription is $30, every bonus piece and feature included. Here's my pitch. 🤼

Anyway every post-Daley mayor Chicago’s had responds to people having a good time in a public space with the desire either for cops, a curfew, or an exorbitant admission fee.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind

Happy Thanksgiving from Mr Worldwide

one of the things i want people to understand is that the people ICE is targeting who you think should be "safe" are already vulnerable to this kind of treatment from the state in all of its guises. think kids who are citizens shouldn't be treated like this? got bad news for you about foster care.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

back home for thanksgiving. excited to watch The Mentalist on my parents’ tv. the way it was meant to be viewed. parents’ tv? motion smoothing on? that’s like the 70mm of crime procedurals

Refuse any solution where ICE still exists

it’s my birthday so i’m allowed to be vain — here are some photos of me at peak “film director gesturing dramatically” on set for my psychological horror feature Quiet in the House 📸: @oo0oo.bsky.social

always "spam risk" never "friendship opportunity"

ok this crowd is so square though, not a good party; i cringe every time the shot cuts to the crowd

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The same reason that, historically, machines used by women in the home were called “appliances” and seen as mere tools, whereas machines typically used by men were endowed with the more scientific term “technology,” which also implied a degree of knowledge & mastery.

Amazing!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I’m howling.

never accept the terms and conditions of the fae without reading very closely

okay i signed up for a new health insurance plan going from $85 to $153 but according to the exchange my doctor doesn’t exist (i’ve been going to Howard Brown for this exact reason, because i know they will either take it or work hard or take it or be reasonable in cash in a pinch)

A friend of mine, a disabled trans woman, was detained by ICE in Charlotte yesterday. If you have anything to spare, please do. chuffed.org/project/1462...

It will likely cost Chicago taxpayers approximately $52 million in interest to borrow that money and pay off during the next five years, according to estimates provided to the Chicago City Council.

I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it. In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.

Well well well

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

alps is really good, classic pancake house

You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.

one of the best movies ever made

outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

Frankenstein (2025)

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oof i've always liked his work so this is a bummer but i'm never ever surprised by men (or other white women, let's be REAL real and i'm constantly on guard for shit within myself) anymore

He has insurance paid for by the constituents he screwed,

plus one of my niche photography specialties is “pretty flattering photos of people talking“ so i love this header image ✨

this is a great piece and i was thrilled to shoot this party and support a deeply inspiring organization! (the dance party at the end also went hard)

A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash. He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

You know I checked the “I would like a response” box as I unloaded on his ass

park district is VERY strict about photo permits for pro shoots in millennium park so i would like to see some enforcement please

50 years ago today, #OTD in Weather History, on November 10, 1975, the Great Lake ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior. So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.

They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

mamdani is going to impose mississippi masala law. everyone will have to watch his mother's movies and realize how much we've undervalued her at the expense of white female filmmakers who fit more easily into our understanding of "feminist cinema" or whatever.

if he votes yes on this durbin should never know peace

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!